ABSTRACT

Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism makes new connections between post-feminism and queer theory to explore the complexities of contemporary gender and sexuality. In a wide-ranging examination of sex education, safe sex, and sexual healthcare, this book demonstrates how queer post-feminist discourses practically shape young women’s lives.

Bisexual, pansexual, non-binary, queer. With the ever-expanding scope of gender and sexuality categories, some feminists have bemoaned a "shrinking of the lesbian world." But how do young women understand these identity politics? Drawing on extensive interviews with queer young people, this book offers a timely exploration of the links between identity, sex, and health.

Utilising cross-disciplinary perspectives grounded in international social science research, this book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in sexuality and sexual health and those in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, public health, social work, and sociology. The book also offers implications for practice, suitable for policy-makers, health practitioners, and activist audiences.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|26 pages

Identity politics

Queer women’s negotiations of sexual labels

chapter 2|23 pages

Not like other girls

Post-feminism and understanding non-binary genders

chapter 4|24 pages

Safety, risk, and trust

Negotiating ‘good’ sexual citizenship

chapter 5|28 pages

The politics of queer sexual health

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion